A novel hemiacetal dehydrogenase activity involved in ethyl acetate synthesis in Candida utilis

M Kusano; Y Sakai; N Kato; H Yoshimoto; Y Tamai

doi:10.1016/s1389-1723(99)80135-2

A novel hemiacetal dehydrogenase activity involved in ethyl acetate synthesis in Candida utilis

J Biosci Bioeng. 1999;87(5):690-2. doi: 10.1016/s1389-1723(99)80135-2.

Authors

M Kusano¹, Y Sakai, N Kato, H Yoshimoto, Y Tamai

Affiliation

¹ Central Laboratories for Key Technology, Kirin Brewery Co. Ltd., 1-13-5 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0004, Japan.

PMID: 16232539
DOI: 10.1016/s1389-1723(99)80135-2

Abstract

Acetate ester synthesis was studied in vitro with the ethyl acetate-producing yeast Candida utilis. The level of enzyme activity observed for the NAD+-dependent hemiacetal dehydrogenase acting on hemiacetal, which was produced non-enzymatically from an alcohol and an aldehyde, was much greater than that for the other enzyme involved in ester synthesis, alcohol acetyltransferase. The level of ethyl acetate synthesis in vivo approximately paralleled the hemiacetal dehydrogenase (HADH) activity. The results suggest that the main pathway for ethyl acetate synthesis in C. utilis involves a novel hemiacetal dehydrogenase activity.